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Zia Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k55 grants · $172k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $151k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CORNERSTONE RANCH | $50,827 |
| MENTAL HEALTH JUSTICE PROJECT | $50,000 |
| TRINITY COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| LEHIGH UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| THE RIVER WALK FUND | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SNE | $5,750 |
| CHILDREN OF FALLEN PATRIOTS | $5,318 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH | $5,227 |
| AMERICAN HUMANE SOCIETY | $5,227 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $5,222 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TEXAS HILL COUNTY | $5,215 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,182 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,182 |
| SEA SHEPHED CONSERVATION SOCIETY | $5,182 |
| PATHWAYS | $5,175 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
69 repeat relationships — 52 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
TRINITY COLLEGE5× · 2021–2025 · $115k · revenue +13%- LULEHIGH UNIVERSITY3× · 2023–2025 · $60k · revenue +21%
CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $40k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- TSTHE STANWICH SCHOOL INCone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +44%
- CFCHATHAM FIRE ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
- HWHumane World for Animals Incone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighbor to Neighbor Inc and the most unlike its peers is Greenwich Point Conservancy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
64 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 64 of the 102 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds THE FAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds GREENS FARMS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds ETHEL WALKER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Pitzer College ↗
- Who funds OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREENWICH INC ↗
- Who funds SOUNDWATERS INC ↗
- Who funds REACH PREP INC ↗
- Who funds INSPIRICA INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE CAPE COD MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds GREENPEACE INC ↗
- Who funds SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH ↗
- Who funds FOOD RESCUE US INC ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE HEALTH WORKS ↗
- Who funds THE STANWICH SCHOOL INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Near and Far Association Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Garden Homes Fund · Malkin Fund Inc · Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation Inc · Newman's Own Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Zia Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Kids in Crisis Inc — 49% of income from government
- Pathways Inc — 45% of income from government
- South Africa Partners Inc — 42% of income from government
- Inspirica Inc — 30% of income from government
- Homes With Hope — 28% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Stamford Inc — 17% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich — 7% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Soundwaters Inc — 4% of income from government
- Shelburne Farms — 3% of income from government
- The Cape Cod Museum of Art Inc — 1% of income from government
- Trinity College — 0% of income from government
- The Stamford Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Greenwich Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.